Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue

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Post by pcunite » Tue, Sep 04, 2018, 5:28 PM UTC

Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue
datacenterdynamics.com

Re: Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue

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Post by GFischer » Tue, Sep 04, 2018, 8:14 PM UTC

We're affected by this issue. And we had our alerts system in Azure as well, so we didn't get alerts about the outage (welp).

Re: Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue

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Post by pcunite » Tue, Sep 04, 2018, 8:40 PM UTC

GFischer wrote: post #2

We're affected by this issue. And we had our alerts system in Azure as well, so we didn't get alerts about the outage (welp).

Thanks for sharing. A big outage like this does have the benefit of making things better in the future.

Re: Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue

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Post by sieabahlpark » Tue, Sep 04, 2018, 9:36 PM UTC

GFischer wrote: post #2

We're affected by this issue. And we had our alerts system in Azure as well, so we didn't get alerts about the outage (welp).

And thus the lesson of all eggs in one basket has been taught again.

Re: Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue

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Post by karmicthreat » Tue, Sep 04, 2018, 9:48 PM UTC

So AWS has had some big outages, as has Azure. Has GCP had any big outages yet?

Re: Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue

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Post by outside1234 » Tue, Sep 04, 2018, 9:50 PM UTC

karmicthreat wrote: post #5

So AWS has had some big outages, as has Azure. Has GCP had any big outages yet?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-17/google-cl...

Re: Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue

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Post by haroldp » Tue, Sep 04, 2018, 9:52 PM UTC

GFischer wrote: post #2

We're affected by this issue. And we had our alerts system in Azure as well, so we didn't get alerts about the outage (welp).

You made the same mistake as Microsoft, who seemed to have put their Azure status page on Azure:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AZURE/comments/9cvgn2/is_there_a_st...

Their status page is back up now, but my stuff's still broken. :\

Re: Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue

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Post by amaccuish » Tue, Sep 04, 2018, 9:57 PM UTC

The Azure status page has more information. I suggest updating the link.

> A severe weather event, including lightning strikes, occurred near one of the South Central US datacenters. This resulted in a power voltage increase that impacted cooling systems. Automated datacenter procedures to ensure data and hardware integrity went into effect and critical hardware entered a structured power down process.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/

Re: Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue

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Post by Someone1234 » Tue, Sep 04, 2018, 9:58 PM UTC

Visual Studio Online has been offline all day. They say it is due to the same Azure outage. This has had a productivity impact.

If Microsoft didn't own GitHub, this may have prompted a move, but since they do it seems a little redundant given that Github will likely be on Azure too before long.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsoservice/?p=17405

Re: Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue

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Post by craftyguy » Tue, Sep 04, 2018, 9:59 PM UTC

pcunite wrote: post #3

GFischer wrote: post #2

We're affected by this issue. And we had our alerts system in Azure as well, so we didn't get alerts about the outage (welp).

Thanks for sharing. A big outage like this does have the benefit of making things better in the future.

[citation needed]